Wednesday, June 07, 2006

High and dry – for now   I am in Orlando gazing out on the Disney skyline from my 8th floor balcony with its sparse plastic furniture and yellow stucco walls, listening to blackbirds squabble and air conditioners hum and a delivery truck beep as it backs up over some brown palm fronds on the ground, and I’m thinking about the flatness of the land from horizon to horizon, the muted orange sunrise just outside of my view, the miracle of the cup of coffee brewed in my hotel room and lightened with powdered milk substitute. I’m thinking about the originality and banality of the Disney concept all wrapped up in one. I’m thinking about how splendid this land must have been before Mickey ears in a bygone era when the rain fell and didn’t bounce off pavement. But even this halcyon thought of ribbons of grass and wading birds is interrupted by a car alarm in the parking lot below. I’m thinking about sea-level rise. 7:37:15 AM    comments []

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